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Glenn Beck
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DATE: THURSDAY, 08.08.24
LAST UPDATE: 08:50 AM ET
PREPARED BY: CB, RR, JB, SK, BM

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We have the following scheduled for today's program:

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Yael Eckstein
TOPIC: How Israelis are preparing for a potential attack from Iran-backed Hezbollah.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: J.P. Decker
TOPIC: What has happened in Lahaina one year since a wildfire ravaged its land and community.


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Here are some highlights from this day on previous shows:

August 8, 2006 - Glenn asks if spending time with young kids is boring... The declining quality of Hollywood movies... Joe Lieberman's Senate primary... Glenn says advertising to kids should be banned...

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News...

American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms 'Quiet Skies' Nightmare
Placed on a terror watch list, the former Hawaii congresswoman and her husband were tailed by Air Marshals and bomb dogs. "Unconstitutional on every level," she says. "And I'm not the only one."

Biden-Harris Does a Stealth Medicare Rewrite
Like tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices until after the election, the Biden-Harris administration is attempting a last-minute tweak of the Inflation Reduction Act to delay the premium increase for seniors’ prescriptions until after the election.

Biden ‘not confident’ in peaceful transfer of power if Trump wins ... I mean loses in November
“If Trump wins, no I'm not confident at all. I MEAN if Slrump loses I'm not confident at all," Biden blundered in response to a question by Robert Costa.

Hunter Biden hired by Romanian oligarch to ‘influence US government,’ special counsel claims
Bank records show that Hunter Biden and his business associates received at least $3 million from a Romanian real-estate tycoon.

Courts Stall Georgia Election Official’s Case Months After Dems Threatened Her For Refusing Certification
If left unresolved, this could create a chilling effect on election officials concerned about the certification of the upcoming election.

More abortions now than under Roe v. Wade due to abortion pills online, study finds
Nationwide, the average number of abortions per month was nearly 100,000 in the first quarter of 2024, according to the WeCount initiative from the Society of Family Planning.

Black woman charged with hate crimes after calling white arresting officer the N-word
According to the police the woman “made multiple comments about the officer being white and that was the reason for her arrest." She also called the officer a “racist a** mother******" and a “union [N-word] boy."

Blaze News...

Steve Deace: 2020 Poll Failures Should Guide 2024 Poll Skepticism
The significant inaccuracies in 2020 polls, with errors up to 8.9 points favoring Democrats, should serve as a cautionary tale when considering 2024 election polls.

Horowitz: The 10 most radical acts of Kamala’s running mate
You could not possibly conjure up a more radical ticket than Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Blaze News investigates: Vicious Venezuelan gang expands transnational crime empire by exploiting US open-border policies
While the Biden-Harris administration's border crisis has caused many issues nationwide, arguably the most concerning consequence of the federal government’s open-borders policy is the flow of organized crime elements into the U.S.

Harris...

Vance Walks Up To Reporters Waiting On Tarmac For Harris: ‘Thought You Guys Might Get Lonely Because The VP Doesn’t Answer Questions’
“I figured I’d come by ... hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months,” Vance said pointing back at Air Force Two. “I also thought you guys may get lonely because the vice president doesn’t answer questions from reporters and hasn’t for 17 days.”

Kamala Harris was 'humiliated' by Doug Emhoff affair bombshell
She hoped to shift the spotlight away from the scandal with the Tim Walz VP announcement.

Kamala Harris donated last year to defund police group backing DC ‘sanctuary city’ law
News of the donations, which have not been reported on until now, comes as Harris faces scrutiny on the 2024 campaign trail over her support in 2020 for defunding the police and her handling of the border crisis.

Hating Men Is Now The Democrats’ Campaign Strategy
The Harris campaign and Democrat operatives, even when speaking directly to white men to earn their vote, don’t try to hide their aggressive contempt for them, nor do they make any real effort to reorient their smug, self-satisfied brand of feminism.

The Atlantic suggests Kamala's shallowness and cringey speeches are assets — at least on TikTok
Rather than write off Harris' cringey speeches, viral gaffes, and sudden onset accent changes as "cheap fakes," the liberal media appears keen to try a different strategy: reframe Harris' weaknesses as strengths.

Tim Walz says 'hate speech' and 'misinformation' are not protected speech
"I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” said Walz in the eight-second clip widely circulated on social media.

Tim Walz Falsely Claimed He Served in Afghanistan. When a Local Vet Called Him Out, His Office Did Nothing.
Walz launched his first congressional campaign as "a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom."

‘Not Being Tim Walz’: Social Media Flooded With Pictures Of Vets Serving Country After He Ducked Combat In Iraq
On Wednesday on X, posts that read, “me not being Tim Walz” went viral with veterans from the various branches of the U.S. military posting pictures of them deployed around the world.

Walz refused to respond to reporters asking him if he committed stolen valor
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was repeatedly asked on Wednesday if he engaged in stolen valor by misleading the public about his military service in the Minnesota Army National Guard.

Democrat Senator Tina Smith claims JD Vance never served in the military
"Well, here is Tim Walz, who enlisted when he was 17 years old. He served in the National Guard for 24 years. And I’m not aware of any military service that JD Vance has ever served. So let’s just make the comparison there," Smith told CNN's Jim Acosta.

As Somali Gangs Waged War and Trafficked Children in Minnesota, Tim Walz Asked for More Somali Refugees
Walz’s request was a response to former President Donald Trump’s move to allow states and localities to deny increased refugee resettlement in their communities.

James Carville Urges Kamala Harris To Avoid Campaigning On Life Story
“Her bio is not all-American ... she doesn’t have a up-by-the-bootstraps story."

NPR: Why Republicans are calling Walz 'Tampon Tim' — and why Democrats embrace it
The bill’s inclusive language reflects that not all people who menstruate are women, and not all women get periods, which was important to those who lobbied for the legislation.

CNN: Right-wing media figures launch flurry of attacks on Tim Walz in race to define VP candidate
Hannity not only disparaged Walz with a wide range of negative descriptors, but he also criticized his personal demeanor, claiming he is “pretty weird.”

McConnell blasts Harris-Walz ticket as ‘far left,’ says Democrats have ‘abandoned’ rural America
"Most Democrats today are far left,” McConnell said.

Politics...

Josh Hawley turns once-blue Missouri Senate seat into ruby-red refuge
For more than a decade, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill held a crucial seat for Democrats in a state otherwise dominated by Republicans.

Cori Bush Melts Down On Stage After Primary Loss: 'AIPAC, I'm Coming To Tear Your Kingdom Down'
"All they did was radicalize me, and so now they should be afraid. See, now they about to see this other Cori, this other side," Bush said during her concession speech. "AIPAC, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down."

Economy...

Carol Roth: Recession indicators flash red amid market turmoil
Our fiscal foundation has been shaky for a while, and new cracks are beginning to emerge. Get prepared for more financial turbulence ahead.

Mortgage rates at lowest level in 15 months
The MBA report indicated that mortgage rates fell last week to 6.55%.

Immigration...

Key homeland agency warns agents that Iran, proxies may try to cross border to attack United States
Dual warnings about Tehran and a Venezuelan gang accentuate consequences of the Biden-Harris administration's policies on the border and the Middle East.

The unprecedented illegal alien crisis worsens our housing shortage
As of 2024, the U.S. was short somewhere between 4 to 7 million housing units. The shortage of affordable and multifamily housing is especially severe, as multifamily construction has declined since 2021, dropping 14%.

COVID-19...

Yellen under fire from Senate Republican for big-ticket pledge to global Pandemic Fund
Sen. Eric Schmitt assailed the commitment of hundreds of millions of new dollars as “yet another brazen attempt to fund unaccountable entities from the American taxpayer’s wallet.”

Israel-Iran...

Harris tells anti-Israel hecklers to be quiet unless they ‘want Donald Trump to win’
Democratic candidate meets with "uncommitted" vote organizers ahead of Detroit rally, reportedly shows openness to discussing their demand for arms embargo on Israel.

Iran seeks support for retaliation against Israel at meeting of Islamic nations
An emergency meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation was held at Iran's request. Local media reported that while participants criticized Israel, they raised concerns about the current fighting developing into a wider regional conflict.

CNN: Hezbollah poised to strike Israel independent of Iran
The Lebanon-based militant group is moving faster than Iran in its planning and is looking to strike Israel in the coming days, one of the sources said.

Iran executes dozens, day after hanging protester over killing of IRGC agent
There were 26 people reportedly killed in one group execution, in a move without comparable example since 2009.

Ukraine-Russia...

Russia says Ukrainian troops crossed into its territory and launched ‘massive attack’
It marks the first incursion of its kind from Ukraine.

US Wants to Know Ukraine ‘Objectives’ in Russia Incursion
The White House said Wednesday it was contacting key U.S. ally Ukraine to learn more about the "objectives" of Kyiv's most serious cross-border incursion into Russian territory in months.

Los Angeles resident passed over in US-Russia prisoner swap pleads guilty to treason
A dual U.S.-Russian citizen standing trial for having donated $50 to a Ukrainian charity pleaded guilty to treason charges, her lawyer told state media on Wednesday.

China...

Semafor: Chinese media, activists have mixed feelings about Tim Walz
The Minnesota governor taught English in China in 1989, spent his honeymoon there, and organized student trips to the country.

Europe...

Taylor Swift’s Vienna concerts canceled over Islamist attack plot
Austrian authorities arrest alleged ISIS sympathizer for planning to attack U.S. megastar’s upcoming shows, seize chemical substance at his home.

Amid riots, UK's new, center-left PM gets early test over his country's illegal migration issues
One news outlet describes the riots and Prime Minister Keir Starmer's predicament as the "summer from hell."

Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread
Why did the anti-immigration riots not explode first in France or Germany? One reason may be Brexit. When Britain voted to leave the EU eight years ago, people believed that immigration would be brought under control. The opposite has happened.

Entertainment...

Photos show squalor at David Copperfield's $7M Manhattan penthouse
Copperfield "trashed" his luxe $7 million Manhattan penthouse, leaving it in a state of "utter disrepair" that could potentially damage the entire building, a lawsuit claims.

LGBTQIA2S+...

An open letter to Kamala Harris from a Democratic woman
Why is it that (apart from your advocacy for abortion rights, which I support enthusiastically) you and other Democrats are leaving it to the GOP to stand up for women’s hard-won and extremely popular sex-based rights?

Megyn Kelly On Tim Walz: ‘This Guy Scares Me’
“He’s the most radical they could find on the trans issue,” Kelly said. “As I said yesterday, he’s another Gavin Newsom. There’s just almost no daylight between those two — if any, at all — which is an issue very important to me personally, and my audience as well.”

Education...

Harvard Must Face Anti-Semitism Lawsuit After School 'Failed Its Jewish Students'
Federal judge denies Harvard's bid to dismiss complaint.

Texas teacher grabs his gun to intervene in alleged sexual assault of teenage girl
"I ran outside, asked what's going on. The girl screamed, 'I'm 15, help me!' I pointed the gun at him and told him to get off her."

Science...

Astronauts trapped in space by Boeing's faulty Starliner are given horrifying news about potential return to Earth
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have already been trapped on the International Space Station for more than two months, may not come back to Earth until February 2025.

Travel...

Alaska Airlines flight attendants detail terrifying panel blowout incident
"I said there is a hole in the plane, in the back of the plane, and I'm sure we've lost passengers."

Airbnb stock tumbles 14% thanks to 'retro' travel trend
Many travelers in recent months have turned to tried-and-tested hotels and motels for their vacation stays.

Sports...

Simone Biles’ Life Proves Exactly Why ‘Suffering’ Should Never Decide If A Baby Lives Or Dies
Long before she became a globally celebrated champion, Biles was a neglected child who, after three years of enduring her biological mother’s drug and alcohol abuse, was transferred into the foster care system.

XY chromosome Olympic boxer dominates female opponent once again, will now fight for gold medal
Controversial boxer Imane Khelif advanced to the Olympic finals after another dominating victory over a female opponent at the Paris games.

ESPN: Chiefs' Harrison Butker will 'stand behind what it is I'm saying'
Butker gave a speech on May 11 that he said took months to prepare. His comments were considered anti-gay and sexist. Among other things, Butker criticized Pride Month and said being a homemaker was more valuable for a woman than anything that could be achieved in the workplace.

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